Karl Waheed Avocats provides companies, groups and business of all sizes, managing directors and senior managers with innovative and practical solutions in migration law for professionals.

Legal and administrative support

Karl Waheed Avocats provides daily support to international groups for all immigration related procedures required to transfer resources to France, on a permanent or temporary basis.

Karl Waheed Avocats performs on behalf of its clients services related to all administrative procedures for obtaining visas, work authorization, and residency permits for the international transfer of their employees – and families – to France or from France to another country.

Within this scope, we regularly attend to the following related processes:

ICT secondees or ICT trainees, for intra-group assignments,

“Passport Talent”: for recruiting high potential talents, Corporate Officers, Scientists, or intra-group assignment with French employment contract, and other specific profiles.

International Service Providers: for assignments pursuant to commercial contracts with a French legal entity.

Changes in immigration status: for young foreign graduates hired in France.

Intra EU Secondment: for temporary assignments in France of personnel from other EU countries.

“Employee” Introduction: for recruiting resources under local work contracts that are not entitled to the EU Blue Card.

“Entrepreneur/professional” Status: for foreigners wishing to engage in commercial, industrial or craft–related activities on the French territory or Self-employed workers

Artistic, cultural or sports-related occupations

Trainees and interns

Consular procedures to obtain foreign visas while in France

We also offer our expertise and support with the following procedures:

Visitors on extended stay: for foreigners wishing to reside in France without professional activity.

Spouses of French nationals

Family member of EU nationals

Family reunification

Nationality: applying for French nationality granted by decree, acquiring French nationality through marriage.

Assistance with Social Security Formalities: for foreign clients with no legal entity registered in France but whose employees are subject to the French social security scheme during their missions in France, we assist with the registration process for the URSSAF (Social Security Contribution Collection Office) and with the calculation and the payment of all social contributions to the relevant organizations.

We offer our services to help foreign citizens register with the CPAM (the Local Sickness Insurance Fund) once the residence visa process is over.

Support with exchanging foreign driving licenses: in accordance to bilateral agreements between France and other countries, we assist with the exchanging of driving licenses at local prefectures.

Consultancy

Legal consulting on immigration law, labor law and social security regulations.

Analyses and summaries of all aspects of immigration law applicable to the mobility of foreign personnel;.

Legal assistance on foreigners’ rights to residency and work in the scope of ad hoc operations or complex corporate dossiers, e.g. transfer of foreign employees in the context of international services contracts, mergers and acquisitions, industrial assembly, subcontracting, film shoots, live shows, sporting events.

Legal Intelligence

Our daily legal monitoring enables us to keep our clients informed without delay of any significant changes in the law concerning residency and labor applicable to foreigners residing in France and to offer recommendations based on legal or regulatory changes.

Negotiations and Disputes

We defend our clients’ interests at the various administrations and in civil and administrative legal proceedings.

Training

We develop conferences and training modules that are tailored to our clients’ needs both in content and in duration.

Conferences

The following topics, supported by real case examples, are among those that may be featured:

FRENCH REGULATION

This title covers the transfer of foreign personnel and any recent developments in regulations taking into account the provisions on entry and residency in France, labor law, social security and taxation.

EUROPEAN UNION LAW AND INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS

This title presents the national practices and regulations in immigration, social security, and taxation matters.

SPECIFIC CATEGORIES

This title concerns highly qualified professionals, intra-group assignments, business visitors, seasonal laborers, professionals seconded under international service contracts, assembly technicians, foreign managers carrying out trade (under foreign business trader status), trainees, students, accompanying family members. It covers topics such as entry and residency in France, labor law, social security and taxation.

SPECIFIC DIFFICULTIES

This title pertains to qualified personnel from emerging countries in Asia and Latin America.

INTERNATIONAL SUBCONTRACTING AND SERVICES PERFOMANCE

This title presents the French regulations governing international deployments of foreign workers in the context of contracts for providing international services and subcontracting, and sets out difficulties specific to certain economic sectors (industrial assembly, construction and public works).

SANCTIONS

This title covers the inspections the administration conducts and the sanctions incurred in cases of infringement of regulations.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Under this title, the regulations and administrative practices found in other countries are analysed and compared, notably those in effect in the OECD. An outlook on future developments in foreign regulations is provided.